Need Halloween costume ideas for kids? Here’s help.
Particularly if you’re looking beyond the typical clowns and princesses, check the website A Mighty Girl. It has a fun, interactive, costume-finding tool that sorts by age and category. And honestly, a lot of these costumes are not gender-specific.
Photo from A Mighty Girl website
Halloween costume ideas from A Mighty Girl
The ages go from infant to adult, and the categories include animals, humorous, traditional/scary and, my personal favorite, historical.
How much fun would it be to trick-or-treat with your preschool-aged Harriet Tubman or Sally Ride?
We also loved the Supreme Court justice (RBG, anyone?), the Baby M.D. and all of the superheroes. Also, who doesn’t love a tiny, cuddly sloth?
You can save a trip to the mall by using the “Buy from Amazon” links. Shopping this way sends a portion of proceeds to support A Mighty Girl and its girl empowerment mission.
A Mighty Girl calls itself “the world’s largest collection of books, toys and movies for smart, confident, and courageous girls.” In addition to the costume guide, it has dozens of fun and spooky book and movie selections for kids and teens.
Popular Halloween costumes
Separately, there’s this from a fashion website that said it analyzed Google trends data to declare “2024’s most popular Halloween costumes.” Here’s what they came up with:
- Deadpool and Wolverine
- Wizard of Oz
- Beetlejuice
- Barbie and Ken
- After that, ghost is a perennial favorite
